2015 Phylogenomics Symposium and Software School
Undergrad Science Building, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
May 18 and 19, 2015 (schedule)

This symposium and software school
immediately precedes the Standalone meeting of the
Society for Systematic Biology, at the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

The Symposium and Software School will take place at the
Undergrad Science Building (USB);
the Symposium will take place in room USB 2260, and the
Software School will take place in rooms USB 2244 and USB 1250.

This symposium and workshop is sponsored
by the National Science Foundation through
grant DBI-1461364 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Symposium
(May 18, 1-5 PM, USB 2260) will
feature talks by the developers of
new software, including:

Tandy Warnow:
New methods for
estimating very large multiple
sequence alignments and trees with up to 1,000,000
sequences
(PPTX)(PDF)

Siavash Mirarab:
New methods for
estimating species trees
in the presence of gene
tree incongruence due
to incomplete lineage sorting, and
applications in the Thousand Plant Transcriptome Project and
the Avian Phylogenomics Project,

Luay Nakhleh:
New methods for
estimating phylogenetic networks in the
presence of gene tree incongruence due to
horizontal gene transfer, hybrid speciation,
and incomplete lineage sorting,

SVDquartets:
a method for computing species trees on four species from
gene sequences in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting
(webpage)(PAUP* download)

Please download, install, and run all software before the software
school.
Please contact Tandy Warnow (warnow@illinois.edu) for more
information.

To register
(whether or not you wish to apply for
a travel award), please
download and fill out the
application
form, and send it to Tandy Warnow at warnow@illinois.edu.
Note that registration for this symposium is separate from
the registration for the SSB Standalone meeting! Also, there is
no cost to attend this meeting.

Travel awards (supported
by NSF) of up to $500 are available to
graduate students, postdocs, and faculty
who wish to attend the software school and symposium.
(Important: the travel award is only for reimbursement of expenses
directly related to attending the Symposium and Software School;
that means at most three nights (May 17-19) of lodging and round-trip travel
to Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you plan to attend the
SSB Standalone meeting and need additional support, please
contact the organizers of that meeting for information
on how to apply for additional funds.)